Hacktivist deletes white supremacist websites during hacker conference

4 months ago

A hacktivist named Martha Root remotely wiped three white supremacist websites (WhiteDate, WhiteChild, WhiteDeal) live during a talk at the Chaos Communication Congress in Hamburg.
Root, dressed as Pink Ranger, deleted the servers in real time, with the sites remaining offline.
The hacked sites included a 'Tinder for Nazis,' a white supremacist sperm/egg donor matching site, and a racist labor marketplace.
The administrator of the sites called the act 'cyberterrorism' and vowed repercussions.
Root leaked scraped public data from WhiteDate, exposing poor cybersecurity practices, including precise geolocation metadata in user images.
The leaked data revealed over 6,500 users, with 86% men and 14% women.
Root infiltrated the sites using AI chatbots that bypassed verification processes.
Nonprofit DDoSecrets received the leaked data (dubbed 'WhiteLeaks') but has not publicly released it, offering access only to verified journalists and researchers.
Root and journalists claim to have identified the administrator as a German woman, though TechCrunch couldn't independently verify this.

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